The long in-development live action Alita: Battle Angel movie has finally gotten its first trailer, with the western-produced film unsurprisingly causing chaos online, sheer awfulness for once being overshadowed by the unbelievably ridiculous decision to give the titular heroine creepy Gollum eyes.

The truly jaw-dropping trailer, with Rosa Salazar taking on the role of main heroine Alita:

The most creepiest element of all may be the mainstream movie-going being ready to lap this up without complaint – Alita: Battle Angel will debut in theaters on July 20th.

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The eyes will be the least problem. This is just a strategy to catch as much attention on the eyes (and the movie) so nobody will critize the bad acting and unlogical behavior that with no doubt will occour again.

People complaining about the anime eyes, but she looks eerily similar to the actual character when you look at both, so when someone complains that a character doesn’t look like the original you can show em this and say “That’s why anime doesn’t translate well to real life.”

I don’t know why people complain about bad anime live-actions when it will never be good ones… the anime style is a style that will never be reproduced faithfully with people… it doesn’t matter where it comes from or the people they use for it… japanese adaptations want to be accurate but usually have lame effects and look like a bunch of people doing bad-cosplay (also japan may have made anime, but almost all anime character don’t look like real japanese people), american adaptations don’t want to be accurate because obviously anime doesn’t translate well with real people but because of that it loses what makes anime great… anime has to stay animated… that is what makes it good…

I guess they wanted to be noticed and talked about for something, even if it’s for something as stupid as giving her anime eyes. This is looking like it’s gonna be a massive pile of crap – as in style over substance – and those eyes are just DISTRACTING. But I’ll give it a chance. Not paying cinema prices to watch it though.

Her eyes are suppose to be like that. Even in the manga, every person who encounters her makes comments about her eyes. Its one of the things that make her unique from the rest of the androids. She’s suppose to look like a doll.

Wow, I had such high hopes but I wasn’t expecting a move like this. I hope they get so much pressure they remove it. There are so many better ways to give her eyes look larger without doing.. this. Rosa’s eyes already look pretty big, I mean wtf?

Obviously the big eyes had to be given the ‘OK’ by James Cameron. He has such a good track record with his films that I will always give him the benefit of the doubt when it comes to things like this. Definitely looking forward to this…

‘Precious, precious, precious!’ the abomination cried. ‘My Precious! O my Precious!’ And with that, even as the Americans were lifted up to gloat on their prize, it stepped too far, toppled, wavered for a moment on the brink, and then with a shriek it fell off the box office rankings. Out of the depths came its last wail Precious, and it was gone.

I’m just not sure why if they wanted to keep with the visual style of the manga then why not just do full CGI? I think what is creeping people out the most is that she is the only one with those eyes so she stands out too much.

Personally, the eyes do creep me out but I hope that the action/story/characters are good enough to make one overlook the eyes.

No, they didn’t. Anybody could see it’s more creepy than moe, and the production staff is no exception. They tried to make her look artificial on purpose because she’s not human. Her eyes are big in the manga as well (though naturally due to the medium they don’t look creepy). I guess they decided to go for the eyes and not the octopus lips…

everyone complaining about the eyes without realizing that she’s supposed to look weird like that. And before people start complaining about white washing, no one in the manga is Asian either. In fact, the one who restored Alita looks like Egon from the Ghost Busters with blonde hair, flattop cut, glasses and everything.

You must be new to anime and manga. Larger eyes were the norm on female characters when Alita was made. That doesn’t mean she has unnaturally large eyes, it means she is cute. In many other works totally normal girls have large eyes, too.